Posts Tagged ‘Liz Ackert’

Liz Ackert’s pennon for the dream traveled all the way from Texas !with a crow card!and the mended shell she made in Jude Hill’s Considering Weave class when we first met, the weaving is so fineI hung the pennon on the line in the afternoon sun to relax from the journey
Old Man Crow is blown away seeing all the words of his song I dream of a world where love is the answer stitched so beautifully into the pennonhere’s the pennon, shell and card happily settling into the studio space, the dream is real, I can hold it in my hands and read it!hanging out on the front doorthis side of the cloth holds words from Old Man Crow, Terry Tempest Williams, Wendell Berry, John Lennon, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dee Mallon, Marti in New Mexico, and me!delicate asemic writing across the top of the pennonthe other side of the pennon holds all of the words to Old Man Crow ‘s songthe beauty of Liz’s stitching combined with Deb Lacativa’s‘dirty threads’ you can read more about Liz making this dream come true over on her blog(((Liz)))stirring the pot, magic is afoot!

Liz Ackert has finished her magic pennon for the dreaming
have a look over at more photos and words on her blogand Dee Mallon is mapping the way to finding love is the answer
here’s the link to more words and photos on her blogGathering the dreams for our beautiful broken world, we simply have to mend our ways, all 7 billion of us, love is the answer
these pennants give me hope that we can

The Key Book (back cover) Mo 15
(H 12 cm W 9.5 cm )
Yesterday I was feeling that a breakthrough was imminent for resolving this book and taking the metaphor literally, cut through the back cover to inlay this old brass keyholeThe Key Book (front cover) with rust dyed key cloth from Liz Ackert and that’s her extraordinary 60 count hand woven linen in the next picand here’s the reverseso now I have the key what was the question… ?
you can see the pages in more detail here, here, here, here, here & here

PS the explorations in this little book have me thinking once again about light and layers and engraving glass
and how lace relates to glass…listen to this interview with Tony Hanning a master of drawing the light in glass“to see the things we remember never having seen”
Tony gave me the best lesson ever in seeing
Back in 1989 I was engraving the detail in the dragonfly wings on one of his cameo carved vases as the professional practice component in my last year at art school and he said, “these are not dragonfly wings with all these arabesques & curlicues, go home find a dragonfly, look at it’s wings and then come back and get back to work. I did and in that moment learned to truly see….